Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 118
"Of course!" cried the jackal, pretending to tremble with fright; "yes!
Who acts: jackal · What happens: cry, pretend, tremble
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jackal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 cried | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jackal | det |
| 8 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pretending | punct |
| 10 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cried | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tremble | mark |
| 12 | tremble | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 pretending | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fright | case |
| 14 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tremble | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 yes | punct |
| 17 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 cried | discourse |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the jackal | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pretend | gerund | the jackal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tremble | to-infinitive | the jackal not said here | with fright | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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